Curiously Quotes

77 quotes by 72 authors

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand.… — Walt Kelly
It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for… — Francis Galton
English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope… — Alan Coren
When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost… — Joseph Campbell
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. — Walter Pater
Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting. — Clay Shirky
The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel. — Charles Darwin
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris… — Natalie Babbitt
One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art. — Carl Van Vechten
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. — Joseph Conrad
Give half a dozen men the same camera, lenses and plates, and send them to the same place to do the same thing, and all… — Frederick H. Evans
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say… — Paul de Man
A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog,… — Elwyn Brooks White
Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence… — Andrew Solomon
We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air.… — George Eliot
If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with… — Joan Didion
The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some… — Heinz Pagels
There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms and an interesting… — Jo Boaler
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all. — Irwin Shaw
An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the… — Andrew Greeley

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